St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-17

knights of Labor or trades union was
PEREMPToRILY CHALLENGED!
Thus, through us, the constitutional guar
antee of free speech, free press and public
assembly is stricken down, and the blood
bought right of American citizens abrogated
by the courts of the law.
AS TO anarchiSm, that is a speculative phil
osophy which all of us hold TO be the ideal
state OF human happiness. Anarchy-from
Greek Notwithstanding: Ammo: Archie
ruler. Hence anarchism is a society without
rulers or governors-a society where the
unions or free groups conduct their own af-
fairs to suit themselves. A free society based
on the common ownership of the means of
eXistence-the resources of life-free con-
tracts between the federated associations.
Thus ending forever the conflicts between
capital and labor and abolishing poverty.
Now. then, Brother Constant and my fellow
wage slaves, we begin to perceive why the
exploiters of labor, why the poverty breed
erS and crime promoters are so bloodthlrsty
in their denunciations of the anarchists
With greetings and salutations from all the
prisoners, yours as ever, for liberty, frater
4 round of applause followed the
reading and Hon. Thomas Lucas, of
Minneapolis, a carpenter by trade and
labor representative in the last Mime
sofa legislature, rose to speak. He
spoke with a good deal of fervor and
earneStneSS.
HON. THOMAS LUCAS.
fcan hardly realize night that am in
what was once free America.
To-day we find that it is u crime for a man
to get up and advocate the cause of labor.
On the night of May 4, 1856, these con-
demned men attended meeting and simply
spoke their sentiments and exercised their
right 10 free speech. When the meeting had
begun to disperse the police came up and
charged on them.
AT that moment bomb was thrown. Who
threw the bomb? There is no evidence to
show that the condemned men were in any way
vet tod fINo
Suppose policeman should come in here
while am speaking tonight and interfere
with this meeting and some gentleman, in
furiated by his act, should get up and shoot
MN. Under that infamous decision of the
court of Illinois l could be hung for the
murder of that policeman.
There has been no conspiracy proven-no
testimony to show that there was Il conSpir-
acy. The only man that ever had any
thing to do with bombs was Lingg. He made
bombs in certain place, but he left the
meeting at Haymarket long before the bomb
was thrown Fielden said Throttle the
law! Kill the law p and on the stage to-
night say stab and throttle and kill the in
famous decision which perverts the law.
lApplauscl.
say that every free man in America has a
right TO say"Throttle the law; kill tie law
the law that robs us of our rights IA. i raises
up monopolies.I want to say that am not an
anarchist, but am an American citizen. and
as such speak here tonight for t..e preser-
yalon of the rights of Amerit All citizens.
You, this winter. will be shiverin; and starry
ing in your homes by the very things they
were speaking against.
:, But these newspaper men-those pub
nc educators = they are the men
who have been the paid tools
OF those tyrants who are trying to MUIR
der these men. The truth of the whole mat
ter has been suppressed, and the newspapers
have published nothing but what would in
Jure the men who spoke at the haymarket.
When the terrible panic which is now hang
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its fury, and which Chauncey Depew pic
tured to you. and then had to have his state
ments modified in the misrepresentation
that cloud bursts will be heard from again.
DIR. JULIET SEVERANCE.
Mrs. DR.. Juliet A. Severance. of D. A.
los, Milwaukee, the noted female labor
agltatOr, was the next speaker. Mrs.
Severance is a speaker of great ability
and her remarks were greeted with
much applause. She begun by likening
the present labor movement to the abo-
lition movement of forty years ago,
quoting the words of Garrison, when he
was in Jail for making abolition
speeches: The time has come when
no honest man can be out of prison."
1t seems to me tonight that the time has
almost arrived again when no honest man
can be out of prison.
Judge Gary ruled that any one who stirred
up discomfort among the laboring classes
was SulIlI VI HuST lndb ruling l.
plead guilty. would infuse into the work
1ngmen discomfort that will never rest in
any industrious man until he has a home
ana plenty. and freedom for himself and
family and is no longer the slave of the
monopOlists. / see looming up in the dis
lance the storm clouds of greater revolution
than was that of rs. The tyrant is not
King George this time, buta more formidable
and outrageous oppreSsor than any monarch
that ever sat upon a throne. The minister in
the pulpit, largely, the judge on the bench,
and the press Of the country are his willing
tools. His name is King Monopoly. We
want peaceful revolution-a revolution by
the ballot. 1t is for the advocacy of the
wage. slaves of the United States that these
men IN Chicago are sentenced to hang They
said things against capitalism-that's all
that the labor movement must be crushed.
and every labor leader must be arrested.
l know these men are true-hearted, |
honest men, who were working III the inter- |
ests of their fellow men, and | say o-day that
their sentence is disgrace to civilization. |
There was no proof of the violation of any
law, and yet those honest American citizens
ale sentenced to be hung because they spoke
their opinions. 1t seems to me that by these
things every American who has liberty in his |
heart should be reused to action, not by
bloodshed or by violence, but by the ballot.
Remember, upon the freedom of speech, |
freedom of the press, rests the liberty of
America. A great hue and cry has been
raised that these people were carrying arms.
If they did, and deny that they did, they
had right to under the constitution. If the
people of America could know the whole
truth. and the facts were not SO terribly dis
torted by the capitalistic press. no American
citizen would stand by and see these inno-
cent men hung.
Mrs. Severance was followed by Dele |
gate Purcell, of District Assembly 40,
New York city, who is in the West at
tending the general assembly of the
Knights of Labor, now in session at
Minneapolis.
DELEGATE PURCELL.
we have not come here SO much to protest
against the judicial murder of some of our
comrades, but to warn every one of you what
it forbodes for the future 1t is not so much
for their opinion, as for the active part they
have taken i'll stirring up the masses in
the interests t6 of the great labor move
Suppose that they had killed the policemen
at Haymarket. Infatuated by the invasion of
their rights, and holding that they had a con-
stitutional right to meet there to discuss their
grievances, they had legal and moral right
to resist that INVASION
The hanging of these men will not intimi-
date single one of us. l would go to Hay
market to morrow night and address a meet
ing i'll as positive, as indicative terms as
they used, and would have no fear of the
consequences.
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED.
When Delegate Purcell finished.
Slilh mail Eiiili COllSldll1 came forward
and presented the following to the
meeting:
We believe the decision of the supreme
court of Illinois in the so-called anarchist
cases was entirely Influenced by an inflamed
public sentiment brought about by the capi-
talistic clamor for the blood of some leaders
of the labor movement, having as its object
the checking of its rapid and peaceful
growth.
We believe. further, that the trial before
Judge Gary's court was not fair and i'm
partial, and the verdict rendered was there
fore unjust
Therefore we, citizens of st. Paul. Mimi,
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